MUSEUM BLOG
What Role Can Medical Museums Play in 2SLGBTQI+ Communities?
As Dr. Ashley Waddington noted in her interview with us here, gender diversity and its expression cannot be limited to the medical practices we’ve come to group under gender affirming health care today. Historically, transgender, Two-Spirit, intersex and gender non-conforming or genderqueer people have existed independently of medical services like surgery or hormonal therapies.
Part 2: Gender affirming care in Kingston: in conversation with Dr. Ashley Waddington
To explore the topic of gender affirming care, we spoke to Dr. Ashley Waddington, an Associate Professor in the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen’s University. This is the second part of an interview with Dr. Waddington.
Part 1: Gender affirming care in Kingston: in conversation with Dr. Ashley Waddington
To continue exploring the topic of gender affirming care, Associate Professor in the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen’s University.l
The Art of Science: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Neuron Doctrine
A flower garden with delicate forms. Elegant and luxurious trees. Mysterious butterflies.
Rat Poison, Honey and Testicles - A Twisted Tale of Doping
People will go to any lengths to win. A drive for competition has underscored much of human history, leading to the establishment of competitive environments and the search for an elusive edge over your rivals.
Selling Sex: HRT and Knowledge Transmission in 1940s Ontario
Today, I’ll be showing you a bit more about how HRT became a part of Canadian doctors’ work in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, and Chlorpromazine: The ABCs of the History of Psychopharmacology
The story of mental health treatment in North America is a fascinating one. In many ways, the field of psychiatry has had a harder time advancing at the same pace as other medical fields due to the absence of obvious, external markers of disease. In fact, even today, we struggle to define and identify psychiatric illnesses and develop reliable, safe, and effective methods to treat them.
The Public Life of Hormones: HRT in Ontarian Communities
My project for this summer’s Margaret Angus Research Fellowship will try to unearth some of this history, looking at hormones’ incorporation into physicians’ education, hospitals, and peoples’ daily lives. By investigating the education of physicians at Queen’s medical school, records of their practice and training, news sources like the ones considered here, and 2SLGBTQI+ community records and ephemera, I will be looking into the local history of HRT in Kingston and Ontario more generally.
Traversing the Transplant Timeline: The Story of the First Successful Kidney Transplant
In 1954 something incredible happened. What had once seemed impossible became a reality, setting the groundwork for one of the biggest revolutions in 20th-century medicine. This is the story of the first successful organ transplant.
Black History Month: Dr. Hadal El-Hadi & Dr. Teresa Semalulu
Dr. Hadal El-Hadi and Dr. Teresa Semalulu are the co-founders of the Black Physicians of Canada organization established in 2020 with a mission to build a community of Black physicians and physicians-in-training, and educate the Canadian health care system about the obstacles that Black physicians frequently encounter.